CAN You Decide What You Want? Sure You Can ….

The Mark & Jack series continues.  This week I am helping you to figure out what you want (and dont want as it turns out).

What I do - and what I teach others - is to break things down into the different areas of their life that are important to them.  In my book, The Wealth Manifesto, I use these as the different categories of wealth (or wellbeing) in your life.  These are the ones I use (you may have different ones):

1. Health and fitness (physical)
2. Learning (mental)
3. Relationships (relational)
4. Service (charitable)
5. Self-esteem / Self-worth (personal)
6. Work and career (vocational)
7. Fun / pleasure (recreational)
8. Spirituality / religion (spiritual)
9. Money (financial)

The idea is that you take each of these categories and - surprise - decide what you want.  Folks, this is basic goal setting, so be sure to consider the basic tenants of goal setting, often remembered by the acronym SMART:

Specific, Measureable, Actionable, Realistic, Time-based.

Like all personal growth things, THE most important thing is the discipline to not only set these goals but take action.  You have to do something … as I noted in my previous post, if you dont, who will?

More on my challenges in actually making this happen and what you can do to avoid some of the pitfalls in the next post.  I’ll also talk about how important it is to know what you dont want.  Have a great Labor Day.